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GKM College of Engineering and Technology Win 'Design ACE - 2009'
By SiliconIndia | Monday, 09 March 2009, 00:36 Hrs |
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Chennai: V. Vignesh & N Keerthivasan from GKM College of Engineering and Technology emerged as the winners at the first edition of 'Design ACE- 2009', State Level Engineering Design Contest conducted by Barry-Wehmiller International Resources (BWIR), concluded on March 7, 2009, in Chennai. The contest received an overwhelming response of more than 100 entries, out of which 15 teams got through to the finals. The valedictory function was presided by Dr. R. Radhakrishnan, Vice Chancellor, Anna University Coimbatore.
The 3 month long contest is an endeavor by BWIR to promote and encourage design capabilities among the engineering students. The contestants of 'Design ACE-2009' submitted one innovative design and a business problem design along with a short write-up. The finalists got an opportunity to present their models in front of jury for 15 minutes.
The winners were awarded a cash prize of
30,000. B. Manoj & K. Ramkumar, PSG College of Technology won the Second Prize of 25000 while K.Y Balaji & S.Suganesh of Sona College of Technology stood third winning 20, 000. The top three teams, in addition to the cash prizes were offered a paid internship at BWIR to work on real-time projects and licenses of SolidWorks.
In addition to this, BWIR announced its plans of BWIR Academia Initiative Program 'Seeding new Talent Pool, for an innovative tomorrow'. Announcing this innovative industry-academia collaboration, Senthil Kumar, Vice President & Senior Partner - Operations, BWIR said "This is our first step to bridge the divide between the industry practicalities and academic curriculums which would address the great demand for indigenous specialized engineering talent".
The 3 month long contest is an endeavor by BWIR to promote and encourage design capabilities among the engineering students. The contestants of 'Design ACE-2009' submitted one innovative design and a business problem design along with a short write-up. The finalists got an opportunity to present their models in front of jury for 15 minutes.
The winners were awarded a cash prize of
30,000. B. Manoj & K. Ramkumar, PSG College of Technology won the Second Prize of 25000 while K.Y Balaji & S.Suganesh of Sona College of Technology stood third winning 20, 000. The top three teams, in addition to the cash prizes were offered a paid internship at BWIR to work on real-time projects and licenses of SolidWorks.In addition to this, BWIR announced its plans of BWIR Academia Initiative Program 'Seeding new Talent Pool, for an innovative tomorrow'. Announcing this innovative industry-academia collaboration, Senthil Kumar, Vice President & Senior Partner - Operations, BWIR said "This is our first step to bridge the divide between the industry practicalities and academic curriculums which would address the great demand for indigenous specialized engineering talent".
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Reader's comments(4)
1:
Wow... It is a amazing thing from my alma matter... Hats off guys... Keep up the good work.
Best of luck for future endeavours.
Best of luck for future endeavours.
Posted by:Magesh
- 10 Mar, 2009
2:
Awful, just awful piece of reporting. The story is about a competition in design, yet it does not tell anything about the winning design.
God, how awful.
God, how awful.
Posted by:arun k. chhabra
- 09 Mar, 2009
3:
Yea, it's such a bad way of reporting. Just by looking at the title, anyone would go search to find about the design.
Anil Replied to: arun k. chhabra
- 09 Mar, 2009
4:
ya it's completely unfair, and also it seems that it's a fake advertisement of college, why didn't they give description of winning model wat was special in that so they got prize
narendra goswami Replied to: Anil
- 09 Mar, 2009
Beautiful and dress selection, please go to Dresses
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